What are the responsibilities and job description for the Chief Medical Officer, System position at MemorialCare Shared Services?
Title: System Chief Medical Officer
Location: Fountain Valley, CA
Status: Full-time
MemorialCare is a nonprofit integrated health system that includes four leading hospitals, award-winning medical groups – consisting of over 200 sites of care, and more than 2,000 physicians throughout Orange and Los Angeles Counties. We are committed to increasing access to patient-centric, affordable, and high-quality healthcare; your personal contributions are integral to MemorialCare's recognition as a market leader and innovator in value-based and other care models.
Across our family of medical centers, we support each one of our bright, talented employees in reaching the highest levels of professional development, contribution, collaboration, and accountability. Whatever your role and whatever expertise you bring, we are dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential in an environment of respect, innovation, and teamwork.
Position Summary
The System Chief Medical Officer serves as the senior physician executive for MemorialCare Health System, providing strategic and operational leadership across our integrated healthcare network. This position is responsible for advancing clinical, operational, and financial excellence and transformation including a role on the oversight team for the Clinically Integrated Network (C.I.N.) and other complex projects and deployments, care coordination across both ambulatory and acute entities, value improvement, performance improvement, quality of care, systemwide patient experience and customer excellence initiatives, patient safety, and physician alignment across all MemorialCare facilities and services.
This position will serve as an internal and external advocate for clinical quality and safety improvement work across the system, and will report directly to the MHS President, in support of the President’s Group and MHS Board of Directors. Working across the system, this position will provide physician executive leadership with all levels of operational and clinical leaders, stakeholders, physicians, staff, vendors and consultants to create smooth initiative rollouts and achieve multi-year goals.
Qualifications:
Minimum Requirements
Education and Experience/Licensure:
- MD or DO degree from an accredited medical school.
- Board certification in clinical specialty.
- Master's degree in healthcare administration, business administration, or related field preferred.
- Minimum 10 years of progressive clinical leadership experience.
- Previous experience as CMO or senior physician executive in a complex healthcare system.
- Active California medical license or eligible for licensure.
Leadership Competencies:
- Demonstrated track record of physician leadership and building physician alignment.
- Strong understanding of healthcare operations, finance, and regulatory environment.
- Experience with quality improvement methodologies and population health management.
- Excellence in relationship building and communication across all levels.
- Proven ability to lead change and innovation in complex healthcare environments.
Special Skills:
- Visionary leader with strong strategic thinking capabilities.
- Outstanding interpersonal and communication skills.
- High ethical standards and professional integrity.
- Collaborative leadership style.
- Data-driven decision-making approach.
- Critical thinking and analytical capabilities.
- Political skills to enhance relationships.
- Public relations skills.
